John Myers Myers

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John Myers Myers (born January 11, 1906 in Northport (New York) , † October 30, 1988 ) was an American author of fantasy and western novels, as well as non-fiction books on the history of the Wild West .

Life

Myers grew up in Long Island and studied at the University of New Mexico . There he was de-registered after a short time when it came out that he had written texts for a rebellious paper called The Pariah . Extensive trips through the United States and Europe followed, during which he was also a correspondent for the New York World and the San Antonio Evening News . He also worked as a copywriter and served briefly in the US Army during World War II. He married in 1943 and lived in Tempe, Arizona , from 1948 .

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Myers' best-known work is the fantasy novel Silverlock (German: Die Insel Literaria ) is. In it, a shipwrecked man on the island of Commonwealth of Letters discovers characters from history, fairy tales and legends: every character in the book - except for the stranded hero A. Clarence Shandon - comes from a different literary work. The novel was repeatedly reprinted. With the sequel, The Moon's Fire-Eating Daughter , the author took thirty years. Myers also made a name for himself as an expert on the Wild West; he wrote both non-fiction books on the subject and western novels. Among other things, he wrote The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man, a non-fiction book about the famous trapper Hugh Glass .

bibliography

Fiction
  • The Harp and the Blade (1941)
  • Out on Any Limb (1942)
  • The Wild Yazoo (1947)
  • Silverlock (1949)
    • English: The island of Literaria. Translated by Annette von Charpentier and Helmut W. Pesch. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 20063, 1984, ISBN 3-404-20063-2 .
  • The Last Chance: Tombstone's Early Years (1950)
  • Dead Warrior (1956)
  • I, Jack Swilling (1961)
  • Maverick Zone (1961)
  • The Moon's Fire-Eating Daughter (1981)
Non-fiction
  • The Alamo (1948)
  • Print in a Wild Land (1967)
  • Doc Holliday (1955)
  • The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man (1963)
  • The Last Chance: Tombstone's Early Years (1950)
  • The Westerners: a roundup of pioneer reminiscences (1969)
  • The Deaths of the Bravos (1962)
  • The Border Wardens (1971)

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personal data
SURNAME Myers, John Myers
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Northport (New York)
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1988